Food was served at the wrong temperature...

UNSAVORY MENU.

February 28, 1989

NEW YORK — UNSAVORY MENU. Food was served at the wrong temperature, which could lead to salmonella poisoning. There was evidence of mice, flies and roaches in food-storage areas, and in one case, what could have been human excrement. Inspections last month found these unsanitary conditions in a jail on Rikers Island and two facilities in Brooklyn. Inmates at the three city jails might have been served unsanitary food, the city Health Department said after finding more than 100 health-code violations.The jails house more than 4,500 inmates. The Correction Department has been working with the Health Department to remedy problems, said Julian Prager, an assistant correction commissioner, adding that conditions were not that bad. ''They could write up anybody's house worse than this.''